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...holder of the records for most species seen in a lifetime (777) and the most species seen in a single year (711) in the American Birding Association checklist area -- Canada, Alaska and the Lower 48 states. The world of listing is presided over by the approximately 8,000- member ABA and its magazine, Birding, which ranks birders by species seen, prints erudite articles on how to distinguish different birds in the field and sets rules for the listing game. One such rule is that birds reaching North America through human assistance cannot be counted, touching off speculation on whether...
...ABA also rules on Big Days, which are competitions to see as many species as possible in 24 hours. The association once removed a species from the total of a Texas team, thus costing it a tie with California for the national title. The team, while standing on the banks of the Rio Grande, had sighted groove-billed anis. The ABA decided that although the eyeballs of the Texans were indeed on U.S. soil, the birds were in Mexico, outside the official area of the game, and could not be listed. The birding world, particularly at its highest level...
...Soviet waters and about 1,500 miles from Anchorage. Attu vaguely resembles a penal colony, but it is paradise to birders pining for a flyby of the Siberian rubythroat or other Asian rarities. "We have people who go without any hope of seeing new birds," says Larry Balch, the ABA's president and head of Attour, a service that brings about 65 birders to the island each spring for three weeks. "There's something magic and very relaxing about being at the end of the earth...
...ABA screwed up," Dershowitz said. "The phrase 'Soviet lawyer' is an oxymoron. It's like 'Justice Rehnquist...
Designed by Peter Chermayeff, 45, chief architect of Cambridge Seven Associates, the building improves upon concepts the firm used in 1970 for Boston's successful New England Aquarium. Chermayeff describes the layout as similar to a symphony, with a linear structure following an "ABA" rhythm. The exhibits constitute the A elements, or as Chermayeff puts it, "something to read, confront, evoke a response." Long escalator rides from one floor to another through a dramatically high-ceilinged central space provide the release, or B elements. The building begins with a low-key introduction to water-large, blue bubble-tubes...